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Character Codes and Encoding

Introduction

We're going to explain a few things about character codes and encodings here. Even though there is increasingly only Unicode and UTF-8 these days, beginning developers continue to have a hard time.

Links:
https://www.unicode.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/byte_order_mark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ascii …


Typography

Introduction

Someone asked me the other day about how laser printers work and it started me thinking about just how far we've come from the days of traditional printing and typography. It's interesting to think about how it all evolved and where the terminology came from and I took some …

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